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Lexicon :: Strong's G2187 - ephraim

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Ἐφραίμ
Transliteration
ephraim (Key)
Pronunciation
ef-rah-im'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
190x in 1 unique form(s)
Strong’s Definitions

†Ἐφραίμ Ephraím, ef-rah-im'; of Hebrew origin (H669 or better H6085); Ephraim, a place in Palestine:—Ephraim.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2187 in the following manner: Ephraim (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2187 in the following manner: Ephraim (1x).

  1. Ephraim = "double fruitfulness"

    1. a city about a short day's journey from Jerusalem

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†Ἐφραίμ Ephraím, ef-rah-im'; of Hebrew origin (H669 or better H6085); Ephraim, a place in Palestine:—Ephraim.
STRONGS G2187:
Ἐφραίμ or (so R Tr) Ἐφραΐμ [cf. Ι, ι, at the end], (א L H Ἐφρέμ, Vulg. Ephrem, Efrem), Ephraim, proper name of a city situated, according to Eusebius, eight [but edition Larsow and Parthey, p. 196, 18, twenty], according to Jerome twenty miles from Jerusalem; according to Josephus, b. j. 4, 9, 9 not far from Bethel; conjectured by Robinson (Palest. i. 444f [cf. Bib. Sacr. for May 1845, p. 398f]), Ewald, and others, dissenting, to be the same as the village now called et-Taiyibeh, a short day's journey N. E. of Jerusalem: John 11:54. Cf. Winers RWB under the word; Keim, iii., p. 7f [English translation, v. 9; especially Schürer, Gesch. i. 183].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

John
11:54

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2187 matches the Greek Ἐφραίμ (ephraim),
which occurs 190 times in 170 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 41:52–Jdg 8:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:52 - The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20 - And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:1 - After this, Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:13 - And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:17 - When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:20 - So he blessed them that day, saying,
“By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’” Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:23 - And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph’s own.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:10 - from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 - Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:18 - “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the chief of the people of Ephraim being Elishama the son of Ammihud,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:24 - All those listed of the camp of Ephraim, by their companies, were 108,100. They shall set out third on the march.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:48

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:48 - On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, the chief of the people of Ephraim:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:22 - And the standard of the camp of the people of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their company was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:8 - from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:28 - The sons of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:35 - These are the sons of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the clan of the Becherites; of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:37 - These are the clans of the sons of Ephraim as they were listed, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their clans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:24 - And of the tribe of the people of Ephraim a chief, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:17 - A firstborn bull[fn]—he has majesty,
and his horns are the horns of a wild ox;
with them he shall gore the peoples,
all of them, to the ends of the earth;
they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:2 - all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:4 - The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8 - From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:10 - However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:8 - The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - the land to the south being Ephraim’s and that to the north being Manasseh’s, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15 - And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16 - The people of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:47 - When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:50

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:50 - By command of the LORD they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:7 - So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 - And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20 - As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:42 - These cities each had its pasturelands around it. So it was with all these cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - And they buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33 - And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:29 - And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9 - And they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:27 - When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 - From Ephraim their root they marched down into the valley,[fn]
following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen;
from Machir marched down the commanders,
and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant’s[fn] staff;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:2 - And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

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1. Currently on page 1/4 (Gen 41:52–Jdg 8:2) Gen 41:52–Jdg 8:2

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Jdg 10:1–2Ch 31:1

3. LOAD PAGE 3 2Ch 34:6–Hos 9:13

4. LOAD PAGE 4 Hos 9:16–Zec 10:7

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